Online Class Day: Guidelines

Ok, guys here are the instructions for the on-line class day. Please make sure you respond properly by Tuesday, February 7, 2012 BY 5:00 p.m., or you will be considered absent and your work late (so it's like two whammies....).

“Sometimes, you know, you have a moment."

The leading scholar in composition studies, Kathleen Blake Yancey, believes there are four moments happening right now in the field of comp. studies. Each of these moments bleed into one another as they envision innovative ways to progress forward. I want you to "have a moment" (or actually three). Up to this point you have read about rhetorical situation(s), rhetorical analysis, audience, and genre, and the history of rhetoric among other things. I want you to develop your own three moments in which you describe, explain, explore, and create your ideas about what you learning as part of this course that relates to you as a writer, a thinker, and a learner. Draw connections inside of the classroom and outside of the classroom.

Another way to look at this would be as a way to “catch your breath” so to speak by bringing together the last five weeks to figure out what you have learned.  This blog post functions as a reflection, and reflection as defined by Yancey means that you become an active agent in your learning. You are an active participant by not simply being someone who is fed information, but someone who questions, explores, muses, theorizes, and reflects upon your own learning to draw out meaning and understanding.

Guidelines:

1. Use at least two images and/or links and/or videos that connect to what you are saying.

2. Be creative or be analytical. Or be both. Either one works for this post.

3. It should be cohesive.

4. You need to create a "new post" do NOT comment back to these instructions

5. Preview your post BEFORE you post it to make sure that the images fix within the post and that everything flows together--you do this by hitting "preview" while you are editing, but you can also go back into your post once you have hit publish post and edit it by going to "edit posts" and clicking on yours.

6. It should be over 500 words.

6. Good luck ;-)

Due by: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 BY 5:00 pm!!